[Cialug] Install Troubles

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

I first was going to reply to you and then just before I sent the reply
I changed my mind and copied the address into the e-mail.  It bounced
with the following error:
 

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The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

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None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient.

So I don't know what went wrong, but I tried to include everybody, but
it failed.
 
Unfortunately I don't have a laptop.  Bummer.

Murray McKee
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From: mattnuzum at gmail.com [mailto:mattnuzum at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:41 PM
To: McKee, Murray
Cc: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Install Troubles


Please ensure to send your mail to the list, not to me directly. Other
comments below.


On Feb 13, 2008 4:30 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:


	Matthew
	I have two physical drives.  "C" is the old Windows 95 drive.
S/B about 6 Gig.  "D" was empty until Linux was installed on it.  
	 
	Windows started up with a scan because it wasn't shut down
correctly last time and said it found some place on the hard drive that
needed fixed and I said go a head and it did.  Now windows won't boot.
	 
	Results of fdisk
	 
	disk /dev/sda  1614 MB  ** That seems way too small
	64 heads ** This seems way too large
	 
	/dev/sda * 1 780 W95 FAT32
	 
	disk /dev/sdb 10.6 GB
	255 heads ** This seems way too large as well
	 
	/dev/sdb1 * 1 1200 Linux
	/dev/sdb2 1201 1245 Extended
	/dev/sdb5 1201 1245 Linux swap / Solaris
	 
	It looks to me like the last two have been assigned the same
range of cylinders.
	 
	So it looks like both hard drives have been marked as bootable.
	 
	I updated my machine to 128 MB ram after it failed to boot Linux
with the 32 that it had when it ran Windows.  That's as much as the
mother board will accept.
	 
	Boot Sequence is currently set to
	floppy
	CD
	HD1 = "C"
	not used
	 
	When I try to start windows it comes up and allows you to F1
into setup
	 
	After that it scans the 128 MB of memory
	 
	It attempts to read the empty floppy drive and then does a hard
power off.  I'm assuming that it tries to read the CD as well, but I
can't hear it.
	 
	The errors are happening during the install.
	 
	I'm on a slow phone line.  Good connections are 22K - 24K
connections and they degrade to slower speeds as large files down load.
Downloading a CD is not a practical 
	 
	P.S. what command do I issue to close the terminal window?
	Thanks,


With 128M of memory you'll need to use the "alternate CD" method of
installation instead of the live CD. Even then Ubuntu and Kubuntu aren't
ideal for a computer like this. There is Xubuntu, designed for older
computers. However, using the text mode installer I've run Ubuntu OK on
128M of RAM on a 550MHz PC.

Do you have a laptop? Can you stop in at a Panera or the mall for lunch
and download the CD and burn it?

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode 
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